Cara Delevingne discusses modeling, mental health, and how Kate Moss saved her at the Women in the World summit

Cara Delevingne may have looked like she was having a GREAT time becoming a massive supermodel and the eyebrow inspiration of everyone, everywhere, but she wasn't happy.

Speaking at the Women in the World summit, Cara said she felt "disconnected", explaining that she never really felt deserving of her massive success. Things got worse when she developed the skin condition psoriasis - often connected with high levels of stress.

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"I had no concept of saying no to anyone, ever," she said. "After a while I got sick and got a condition called psoriasis. I felt disconnected from myself, but my agency simply shoved me into a doctor's surgery, where I got cortisone shots. In reality, I wanted someone to stop me. But nobody ever did.

"I never felt like I was good enough, that I deserved success. I felt like I was living somebody else's dream."

But Cara credits fellow Kate Moss with saving her when things got a bit dark. She commented: "Kate Moss saved me – she stepped in and picked me up off the floor at a stressful time."

She also says that doing yoga has massively helped her maintain her mental health: "I started writing and found yoga. At first I just did it superficially because I wanted to be flexible, but when I first started seeing my tutor I broke through something.

"We were both chanting and I suddenly burst into tears. I looked at him [the tutor] thinking he was a monster – an evil man – for making me cry. But he just laughed. See, it wasn't him at all, it was me. Now, we still practice together and I've evolved as a person."